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Blake Geoffrion will be paid 803-thousand dollars pro-rated to the number of days he’s on the Canadiens roster. In the Hamilton segment of his two way contract, he’ll get 62,500 dollars. At the end of the one year contract he will still be a restricted free agent. For book keeping purposes, since the Canadiens have[continue reading…]

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The NHL free agency window opens Sunday and the Canadiens will be especially aware of the available talent on left wing which is the team’s current achilles heel. The current crop of available left wingers is thin with the noteable exception of New Jersey’s Zach Parise.

It is often said the Canadiens farm system has dried up, that the majority of the team’s future talent is only now emerging from junior hockey and still years away. If so, how was it that through their injury plagued season the Habs were able to bring eight players into their lineup who held rookie status?

Max Pacioretty has become the go-to forward for Team USA at the World Championships. Four Canadiens prospects will square off at the Memorial Cup tournament this weekend in Shawinigan. A loophole will allow the Canadiens to turn Nathan Beaulieu pro in September. And Blake Geoffrion learns of the lunatic fringe of Canadiens fandom.

The biggest task the new Canadiens general manager will face in his first months on the job will be repairing the depth at the left wing position. It is clear after closely examining the team;s depth chart that the only options will be the free agent market, trades or bandaid solutions such as playing players out of position..

The Canadiens traded forward Andrei Kostitsyn to the Nashville Predators in return for a second round draft pick, their only move on the NHL level on ‘trade deadline day’. Late in the day they returned forward Louis Leblanc to the Hamilton Bulldogs and called up Blake Geoffrion. Geoffrion was acquired from the Predators a week and a half ago as part of the deal that sent Hal Gill to Nashville.